Steve Jobs

It’s an old adage that Kevin Lynch can surely appreciate now: If you can’t beat them, join them. Lynch, who is leaving Adobe to work at Apple, spent the past eight years at the software company, including the last five...

For 34 consecutive quarters beginning in April 2003, Apple easily beat analysts’ estimates on its earnings per share. Then on Oct. 18, 2011 — less than two months after Tim Cook took over as chief executive officer — Apple missed....

Google, Facebook and even Yahoo have been hailed as visionary companies that aren’t just disrupting old media, they’re replacing it. That conjecture hasn’t applied as readily to Apple, which after all deals in high-end hardware, not eyeballs or advertising. A closer look, however, reveals...

As one of the creators of the iPod and iPhone, Tony Fadell raised eyebrows when he announced last year what he’d be doing for a second act. “A thermostat?” was the collective response from Silicon Valley. Fadell, along with fellow...

The similarities these days between Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and the late Steve Jobs are no coincidence. Bezos has channeled Apple’s co-founder before. It happened again yesterday when Amazon unveiled a new line of Kindle e-readers and tablets that take...

Steve Jobs often said that Apple was “at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.” The iconic co-founder alluded to that phrase in one of his last product presentations. “I’ve said this before, but thought it was worth repeating: It’s...

When Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive spoke at a business conference in London this week, he didn’t reveal much. More telling was the fact that he agreed to the on-stage interview in the first place. Apple executives have rarely spoken...

Apple’s Tim Cook, chief executive officer of a company long known for its hush-hush culture, said last month he was placing an even greater emphasis on secrecy when it comes to its products. “We’re going to double down on secrecy,”...

Apple design chief Jony Ive rarely gives interviews, but on the occasion of being knighted in his native U.K. today, the man who helped craft the iPhone and iPad talked with the Telegraph newspaper about the creative process and life...

Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott’s attic. After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one exclusively on Bloomberg TV. In the...